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Originally Posted by nik-
Buddhism seems to progress fine following the teachings of a converted one-percenter. I don't think straying from the literal requirements renders the whole thing moot, a lot of people don't take the Bible literally and still gain positives from it.
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absolutely there are positive messages and teachings that can be gleaned from any religion, they wouldn't have survived thousands of years otherwise
i guess my point is as a non-believer looking for some insight, the entire point of christianity is that jesus knows gods will because he is the son(or holy ghost or whatever semantics needed, tl;dr he has it from first hand account from the big man) of god. if he's not any of those things...then whats the point of believing anything he says? why put 100% conviction in following his teachings so you can go to heaven when you can deduce that based on the laws of physics he was born from a human father and a human mother, contradicting his origin story and raison-d'etre?